ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The new institute will be led by Linda-Eling Lee, who has been appointed as Founding Director and Head of MSCI Sustainability Institute. Lee joined MSCI in 2010 following its acquisition of RiskMetrics Group, where she served as Head of Consumer Sector Research, ESG.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Shareholder proposals provide an early warning signal of risks and opportunities for management and boards," said Heidi Welsh, executive director of the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2). Over time, the shareholder resolution process has evolved to offer an additional benefit.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 17, 2023

According to KKR, the launch of the climate leadership team marks an expansion for the firm on its focus on climate investing.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2024

US corporate political spending on midterm elections doubled from 2010 to 2014 and doubled again from 2014 to 2018. billion in 2018. “Further, in the aftermath of the 6 January 2021 insurrection, broad misalignment in corporate sustainability strategy and political spending and lobbying activity was evident,” she said.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 1, 2022

In practice, however, investment choices are guided by ESG ratings, making the construction of and disagreement among ESG ratings a central concern,” the study said. Regulators are increasingly focused on sustainable-investing ratings in a bid to deter greenwashing.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A large and growing share of that investment capitol is going towards impact investments. In an interview with Private Equity International (PEI), Tania Carnegie, the Global Private Equity and Asset Management Leader for KPMG Impact, said she is confident about the future of impact investing.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 25, 2024

Learning curve To feel confident in investing in SMRs, investors now need to see cost reductions based on a learning curve, such as has been the case with the likes of wind and solar.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 11, 2024

The Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) UK Stewardship Code has come a long way since launch in 2010, but must continue to adapt to a rapidly changing regulatory and investment environment to meet the needs of signatories. It is easy to overlook how far stewardship has come,” she said.

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Sustainability Update

OCTOBER 30, 2021

That organization says in 2020 the P/E industry invested $24 billion-plus just in renewable and sustainability projects… “playing a critical role in the energy transition and moving our economy in a more sustainable direction.” P/E has invested $100 billion in renewable energy since 2010 says the AIC.

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Chris Hall

JULY 8, 2022

Supporting resilience and just transition are as important as climate mitigation, says Lihuan Zhou, Associate at the World Resources Institute’s Sustainable Finance Center. Sustainable investing is a key part of curbing climate change, and the sector is showing some signs of progress. trillion from 2010-2019.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including MSCI, Bloomberg, RepRisk, Pathzero and IETA. . Bloomberg applies estimation techniques, drawing on over 800 data points to estimate Scope 1 and 2 emissions with historical data going back to 2010.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 24, 2024

MSCI then followed suit by taking over Carbon Delta, building on its early acquisition of RiskMetrics in 2010. ISS gained control over Oekom in 2018, and Vigeo Eiris and Four Twenty-Seven were integrated by Moody’s in 2019. The trend probably culminated in 2020 when Morningstar completed the acquisition of Sustainalytics.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 23, 2022

The draft provides “structure” for US companies already reporting climate-related information to investors, said Lisa Woll, CEO of the US Sustainable Investment Forum (US SIF). . Today’s proposal thus is driven by the needs of investors and issuers.” . Wide, aligned scope .

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2023

Dr Alexander Juschus , CEO of the Association of Stewardship Professionals, outlines the importance of filling the stewardship skills gap to drive sustainable outcomes. While its roots may be longer, stewardship is synonymous today with sustainable investing.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 25, 2023

UK asset owners are feeling the squeeze from sustainability reporting, but they are working on ways to ease the pinch. The first time asset owners were expected to report on responsible investment was back in 2007 as part of the UN-convened Principles for Responsible Investment’s (PRI) reporting assessment framework, Russell explains.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The next focused more deeply on the rising profile of social factors, driven partly by the development of the sustainable investment regulations and frameworks around the global. Frequently neurodiverse conditions are classed as disabilities under the UK’s Equality Act 2010.

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Sustainable Development Network

MAY 25, 2020

But the actions taken against climate change and environmental protection were not enough (Castelló et al, 2010) Furthermore, they were “targets mainly for poor countries, to which rich countries were to add their solidarity and assistance through finances and technology” (Sachs, 2012). Colombier M., Segafredo L., Williams J. Castelló D.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 8, 2023

Without action to bolster gender diversity, climate change could delay gender equality by 20 years, with progress in 2030 retreating back to 2010 levels, according to a 2021 report by consultancy firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Women also risk losing out in the climate transition, the report added.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 17, 2023

South Sudan’s work is to be funded by the Global Climate Fund, a separate climate fund established in Seoul in 2010, at an estimated cost of under US$5 million. After all, as Alison Loat, the managing director for sustainable investment and innovation at OPTrust puts it, “What’s at stake isn’t the future of the planet.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s sustainable investing business and energy transition-focused private equity firm Cleanhill Partners announced today a majority stake investment in power conversion solutions company EPC Power.

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James Militzer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Since 2010, we’ve raised more than $420 million for WSMEs and other inclusive businesses in Africa, and we’ve seen how investors can miss good investment opportunities in high potential WSMEs by not being gender sensitive. Nathalie Gogue-Ebo is a Partner and Katharina Weber is a Project Leader at Open Capital.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 18, 2023

Further, in 2010, the Supreme Court decreed that political spending falls under free speech, and therefore any limitations would violate the First Amendment. . It’s important that investors in the US and beyond maintain this growing momentum in 2023, says InfluenceMap’s Brooks. .

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 14, 2025

Biden argued the ban will help protect the US coastline from disasters like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico. President-elect Trump has significant political motivation to leave big portions of the IRA climate provisions intact, said Bryan McGannon, Managing Director of the US Sustainable Investment Forum (US SIF).

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